Good morning Primary 1.
Thank you for all your hard work in school and on SeeSaw. Your models, pictures and poems for Scots Week have been super.
This week we have continued our phonics work, learning the new sound ‘th’ and practising ‘sh’ and ‘ch’. We have been learning number bonds to 5 and 10. We also measured using footsteps and blocks.
Have a super weekend.
Mrs Forbes, Mrs Murdoch & Ms Rutherford
Please find below a link to the West Lothian Early Years Blog.
This blog has been set up to support children and families should you find yourself having to spend a period of time away from nursery. There are lots of ideas and places to visit online. Keep popping back for fresh ideas as the site is added to as time goes on.
Do you have an iPad or android device at home? Visit our Apps for Early Learning page for a list of free apps that can be downloaded to your devices to keep your little ones busy.
Visit our Early Learning Websites page for links to other sites on the web to keep our little learners engaged.
PE Daily Challenge – Day 47
For today's challenge from Mrs Davidov of @MidCalder_PS & @KirknewtonPS you will need a toilet roll, some upper body strength 💪 and good core stability ⚖
How many times can you alternate between plank and press up position without dropping the 🧻 pic.twitter.com/IFT2CjGnZI
— West Lothian Primary PE Network (@WLPENetwork) January 12, 2021
Hello everyone,
Today we are starting a new activity challenge. The Active Fun 2021 Challenge. In this competition we will play against the other houses and against other schools.
This is a friendly competition but we want to try our hardest to be as active as possible. Have a look through all of the information then get logging those minutes!
January 2021 Active Fun Challenge Student Instructions
Come on East Calder, let’s see if you can get your house and our school to the top of the leader board!
Almondell
Calderhall
Langton
Oakbank
Well done to everyone who contributed to our first virtual Nativity Assembly.
This morning we held our usual virtual Assembly on TEAMS, however today’s assembly was very different as it was our first Nativity Assembly which was led by the pupils of East Calder Primary School. The Christmas Story was told by pupils from every class and we think that our P1-7 pupils did a fantastic job! You all learned your parts so well and spoke clearly and confidently – great job everyone!!!
A massive ‘THANK YOU’ to our secret helpers who came in to the school playground last Friday to cement down the beautiful painted stones which our pupils and their families did during Lockdown. We were delighted to see the finished result and are sure that you will agree that they have done a fantastic job. On behalf of everyone at East Calder Primary School THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Your help is much appreciated 🙂
Here are some of the photos of our COVID Snake which can be found in the P1-2 playground.
In Primary 2A, we have been learning about pirates as our Topic. We were very excited to receive a letter from a real pirate who is going to help us with our learning.
We decided what we would like to learn about pirates and some of our questions have been answered in the interesting non-fiction book we have been reading. We even learned about some real famous pirates from the past. Blackbeard sounded the scariest. We wrote fantastic descriptions about him in Writing last week. Well done to Oscar C, Matthew and Isabella who were our amazing Writing stars last week. I wonder who will be the Writing stars this week?
Our pirate also asked us to learn about why pirates have flags on their ships. Well done to Hugo who knew that the reason for this is so that other ships would know pirates were approaching and the flag would scare them. Our pirate asked us to design a new flag for her ship using black paper and oil pastels or chalk. We used no more than two colours each and we did not share to make sure everyone was safe. We used pictures of pirate flags on the Smart Board to help us with our designs. We worked very hard and did an amazing job! We are still waiting to find out the winner. That will be a very hard decision.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
Good afternoon everyone,
Please see below for our new sounds this week. We are learning “igh” and “y” and some pupils are also continuing to practise CVC words. Please support your child to read and write the words in their list. One of the activities the children have enjoyed the most in class is going on a word hunt, with their words written on small pieces of paper for them to find and read.
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Marra
Good morning,
Please find attached our new sounds and spelling for this week: ‘igh’ and ‘y’. Some of our children are practising cvc words for spelling but all are learning the new sounds for this week together.
Please support your child to practise reading and writing these words at home. Try to focus on sounding out each sound then blend the sounds together. If the children are confident reading and writing the words they may wish to write sentences with their words to challenge them further.
These have also been posted on Seesaw for you too.
P2 Spelling igh and y 7th December 2020
Thank you for your continued support.
Mrs Meikle
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